I have a motorcycle license. Does that mean I'm a criminal?

Mal Fraser rode motorcycles.The previous Defence Minister did so too.I can't afford one now and have to drive a Holden shitbox with a clapped-out Isuzu engine.Believe me when I say that my circumstances disgust me.What hope is there for a bloke who used to ride the highways free - (except for the hate of the Qld police).Perhaps it is time to brake the tendency of out State laborites of their downward dive towards 'Wowserism'.To put the turnout into perspective - Not even the Bjelke Petersen lot stooped so low as to attack what amounts to nothing more than a citizen's choice of transport or that set of civil society they may choose to associate with.

Posted by A NON FARMER, Saturday, 16 May 2009 11:59:41 PM

What we need, is legislation hurried through, to stop Footballers congregating in motel rooms.

Posted by LadyAussieAlone, Sunday, 17 May 2009 3:18:50 PM

It is a pretty powerful statement, that a particular type of social club is being singled out these days. Today it's bikie gangs (and, granted, many of these organisations have little to do with the love of motorbikes and more to do with thuggish and organised crime); who will it be tomorrow? Women's groups? I've heard that CWA meetings can get a bit nasty - maybe we should launch an inquiry into them? What about junior soccer clubs? When you see the parents screaming at their kids from the sidelines, you can see that they are promoting child abuse. And I once heard of a neighbourhood watch meeting that almost descended into vigilante violence against renters. Maybe it's time to review the rights of neighbourhoods to meet to discuss security issues?

Singling out bikie gangs may solve a few problems, but the reality is that motorcyclists aren't the only people in the world who may have a tendency to commit crimes.

Posted by Otokonoko, Sunday, 17 May 2009 6:02:53 PM

Non Farmer, I don’t get it. Bikie gangs are being targeted, but bike riders per se are not. You are as free to ride as you ever were, just not as part of a gang, right?

Why do you hate the Queensland police?

Posted by Ludwig, Sunday, 17 May 2009 6:24:55 PM

Happen to see that OTOKONOKO has a grasp upon reality.I'd suggest that the Anglican Mother's Union may have some retrospective concerns about why their sons ended up queer.As for bikers and antisocial behaviour - the onion, the gang-bang, (layer upon layer was once a popular pastime) but in my locality the major players (the girls and boys who actually put-out) had to be shared amongst the bikers, the seaweeds, the surf lifesaving clubs, the footy clubs, the fishermen, the 'builders' the unions, the police, firies, ambos, the local farmer’s association, clergymen, city elders, businessmen, and the masonic lodge.God’s sake when we said a close knit community – we meant it. We all met Wednesday morning and shared notes at the pox-doctor.It has only been in more recent times that ‘women of affairs’ have also entered this affray.

Wasn’t much else to do here on Sat’dy night back then - other than ‘throw the train’.Hellfire, this is CENTRAL QLD and entertainment is at premium!

This is the sort of stuff that leads communities to resort to what the wowsers call crime.It IS NOT crime. It is a lost society behaving badly in result of losing contact with the NATION.Once past it may have been excused.However the much censored media proves that, especially with sportsmen, the whole show is folding. The hate and misery continues and parents well know that their handsome adolescent kids continue to be unsafe in those special arrangements at the tail end of public functions.I shall answer LUDWIG’S next.

Posted by A NON FARMER, Sunday, 17 May 2009 8:04:10 PM

Dear Ludwig,You suggest in your response that I hate police?Forgive me for being startled by your comment.

Police ‘persons’ tend to be subverted, indoctrinated – ‘bent’ is a more simple word describing the conditions of their temporary contract of employment to the state.

That doesn’t stop ‘em from feeling pain after work or retiring early because they can’t handle the system.The reverse of that coin forces ‘police’ to cause innocents to suffer endless outrage. The cop ends his/her shift; yet by their everyday action someone, somewhere, is ‘harvested’ in order to make another statistic on police’s file.It is just another figure on the face of the heartless record of ‘corporate QLD’.

If you look at this industry site – you’ll see equipment designed and produced by my enterprise to save the lives of police – www.users.bigpond.com/pdunnprs/

Mind you it does concern me that police do have factions within their establishment who have suggested that they are incensed by the need to provide equipment designed specifically to prevent them from accidentally shooting their colleagues when they are ‘playing with their pistols’ on government property. (The readers might have some insight as to what I mean.)

But to respond to yours –No I don’t exactly hate police. I just hate what the state makes police employees do.When I speak with individuals of that service they usually wholeheartedly agree with me.